We already got the message. Twenty-somethings of today, I suspect, are already careful about their presences online. We were coming to professional age when we were first joining social networks. But the conversations seems to be ongoing. The Economist magazine has released its annual forecast for the coming year, and, among their predictions, the U.K. [...]

I was fairly late in joining Youtube – one year ago today, the day after I launched this Web site. My roommate first told me about the video sharing and hosting site in November 2005, a year after it launched and a year before Google purchased it. However, I didn’t even think to join it [...]

You’re a member of a dozen or more social networking sites. Same goes for someone you’ve never met but know online, professionally or otherwise. When does that online relationship get weird? I’ve never met Greg Linch. He’s the editor at large for online and multimedia at The Miami Hurricane, the student newspaper pf the University [...]

Even if I am just a couple months into my Facebook life, I believe it is fair to say there is lots of complaint against its new version – beyond just common resistance to change. I’ve jumped into things with Facebook – and MySpace for that matter – so I think I’ve got a sense [...]

I am new to Facebook – though I have gotten on my hustle to maximize readership output from it. At the end of July, the social networking giant announced a new version they were rolling out. Since joining, I ignored the offer to voluntarily take it on – having found to like Facebook and heard [...]

On July 3, I finally succumbed and joined the movement that is Facebook. Six weeks later, I have 400 “friends” – yeah I am that popular. But, from when I first started thinking of giving into the social networking movement back in March, I took the decision way too seriously – wanting it to benefit [...]

Today, nearly four years after it launched, I have joined Facebook. The site itself launched in September 2004, and during that summer, while I readied to begin what would be a transcendent tenure at Temple University in Philadelphia, founder Mark Zuckerberg was watching his baby explode. From its Harvard roots, through other Boston and Ivy [...]